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Nichols, Joe D.; Kim, Il-hee; Nichols, Get W. – Educational Review, 2020
The findings of a community-wide effort to improve K-3rd-grade literacy engagement in an urban community in the United States are reported. Four elementary schools were chosen as data sites to collect assessment scores at three points in the year based on reading and literacy scores on the Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills (DIBELS)…
Descriptors: Primary Education, Urban Schools, Volunteers, Parent Participation
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Kim, James S.; White, Thomas G. – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2008
The effects of a voluntary summer reading intervention with teacher and parent scaffolding were investigated in an experimental study. A total of 24 teachers and 400 children in Grades 3, 4, and 5 were randomly assigned to one of four experimental conditions: control, books only, books with oral reading scaffolding, and books with oral reading and…
Descriptors: Silent Reading, Reading Fluency, Grade 3, Reading Instruction